The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting and Pruning Techniques [Illustrated] [Hardcover]
Review
“If you don’t have a horticulture background, are too busy to take the master gardener program, and wonder about the nuts and bolts of gardening, read this book.” (Steve Aitkin Horticulture )”A practical book filled with the details of how to care for perennials…” (Valerie Easton Seattle Times )”Well worth revisiting, with more than 200 new photos and a 32-page journal section in which you can enter details, notes, and observations about the requirements and performances of perennials in your own garden.” (Suzanne Hively Cleveland Plain Dealer )”This book raise[s] gardeners’ awareness through its refusal to pull punches or let the central tenets get lost in thickets of flowery prose. It’s probably the most down-and-dirty book on gardening I’ve ever read.” (St. Paul Pioneer Press )”The plant expert Tracy DiSabato-Aust says that slightly tender plants, like certain asters, chrysanthemums and ferns, benefit from the layer of protection their dead tops offer (more…)